PLATFORM : I Promised That I Would Not Forget Mel Mermelstein, Mel Mermelstein, a Huntington Beach businessman, was the only member of his immediate family to survive the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. Mermelstein in 1981 confronted a group of historical revisionists who claimed that the Holocaust never occurred, forcing them into a Los Angeles courtroom and persuading a judge to declare the Holocaust an indisputable fact--the first U.S. judicial ruling actually confirming the genocide. Reflecting on that effort, which is the subject of a new television movie called "Never Again," he told The Times: